Hi everyone I'm Matt Kaplan of Planetary Radio. In a few moments we'll begin the first half of a special two-part planetary radio live.

We'll return to our regular format in two weeks.

Toward the end you're going to hear me incorrectly give return to our regular format in two weeks.

Toward the end you're going to hear me incorrectly give the deadline for the new

space trivia contest as January 9.

It's actually Monday, January 2 at the usual 2 p.m. Pacific time. I hope you enjoy the show

happy holidays. I'm going to Come and take a trip in my rocket ship. We'll have a lovely afternoon. Kiss the world goodbye and the way we fly. Destination Moon.

From Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum in Pasadena, California,

This is Planetary Radio Live. Here is your host, the Planetary Society's Matt Kaplan. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

We're back with Plan Rad live in front of another full house here in Pasadena, the robotic space

exploration capital of the world.

Everybody out there ready for some hard science, some soft music, and a few laughs?

That's Lawrence Young, you hear on the guitar, and we also opened with a few bars from our other

musical guests K.J. Williams, jazz and pop vocalist.

We're going to hear more from K. and Lawrence soon. Our other special guests come to us from

the two Mars Rover missions now underway. John Callis is the project manager for the

wildly successful Mars Exploration Rovers that have

changed our view of the Red Planet. Joy Crisp is deputy project scientist for curiosity, the

Mars Science Laboratory, now on its way to that still mysterious world.

Joining me in conversation with Joy and John will be the Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye

the Science Guy, and later we'll check out the night sky and get a

random space fact from my pal Bruce Betts. And a few folks in our studio audience

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